Masters Series: Review from Wednesday's event in TO August 19, 2010 by Super UserBoth Lyle Bunn, who organized, and Dmitry Sokolov, who attended, have sent along their reports from the Digital Signage Masters Series event held in Toronto Wednesday. I couldn’t go, but saw a pile of Tweets from Dmitry (Ingram Micro’s DS guy up here amid the ice floes and polar bears), about the proceedings. My first …
Getting a tenuous grip on mobile and social ties August 18, 2010 by Super UserMy ridiculously smart Preset colleague David Weinfeld spends a lot of time watching where consumer engagement is going and how digital media fits in – not just digital signs, but the whole shootin’ match. He can give hours of useful discourse on social and mobile and how it all stitches together. I can rattle off …
Suspicions confirmed: you're not getting the bandwidth you pay for August 18, 2010 by Super UserThis will shock you to your core – there’s hard evidence that telecoms and cablecos are stretching the truth about their service delivery. Ok, it’s actually more of a “Well, no kidding” moment. Lifehacker posted this morning about the US Federal Communications Commission’s new report on broadband performance. The focus of the technical paper is …
Sightings: Ripple screen no more August 18, 2010 by Super UserSpotted in the wild at a Robek’s in Southern California by an old colleague: “Once a Ripple TV digital sign, now a lonely power outlet surrounded by static marketing materials.” Eeesh. As much as I didn’t like Ripple’s overloaded screen approach, it beats this. DOOH network Ripple TV was acquired by TargetCast last year.
Missed marketing opportunity? August 17, 2010 by Super UserThe Canadian burger chain A&W is testing some new concept stores aimed at urban 25-40 year olds in major cities – featured around self-serve ordering stations. The first one, reports Marketing, is now open in Vancouver. Knowing what’s coming in from tests on digital menu boards in QSRs, as in crazy-good sales lifts, all that …
Designers re-design Taxi TV; forget that pesky ad thing August 16, 2010 by Super UserDOOH research consultant Bill Collins used Twitter to flag a piece from the New York Times on Saturday about the visual mess that is the screen design of Taxi TV, the little hybrid information, advertising and payment screens in NYC taxicabs. A couple of principals from a design firm wrote an opinion piece about how …
The digital signage patents keep on coming … August 13, 2010 by Super UserThe Marlin Company of Wallingford, CT has been granted a second patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,765,273) for its content solution for the Electronic Communication Station, a digital signage product for workplace communications. Since 1913 Marlin has been publishing workplace content to help companies communicate critical messages on safety, productivity, teamwork, quality, etc. While Marlin’s roots …
$68.7 million later, "the business model works …" August 13, 2010 by Super User“Under the leadership of Scott Koller and Darin McAreavey, we have clearly demonstrated a capacity for delivering on key financial performance metrics over the past quarter,” said James C. (Jim) Granger, chief executive officer at Wireless Ronin. “We delivered double digit growth both sequentially and on an annual basis — the highest revenue levels since …
Ronin revenues up, but so is burn rate August 12, 2010 by Super UserThe latest required filings for publicly-listed Wireless Ronin show hardware, software and services sales are heading in the right direction, but the burn rate the company was trying to slow is actually up, not down. Sales are almost double that of Q2 2009 (aka depths of recession), which is good to see. However, despite something …
If a shark jumps in the forest, is there a splash? August 11, 2010 by Super UserLet me state right up front that I have absolutely nothing against the Noventri folks. Never met them. They’ve never upset me. Never been burned by their product. Nothing. But I keep writing about them because they issue the goofiest PR … They jumped the shark by building Madonna into a release about a snack …
